Mobility (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Maritimity in the Indo-Pacific World" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The formal definition of maritime specifically pertaining to human activity in the Oxford Dictionary is “connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity.” A recent approach (Fleischer et al 2011) using temperate zone marine subsistence activity as a baseline, defines a maritime society as one that...
North/South Archaic mobility in Dry Puna. Hunter- Gatherers from upper Azapa valley bassin, northern Chile. (2017)
The different models of hunter-gatherer mobility in South Central Andean area, despite its theoretical and conceptual factors, normally emphasize for the Archaic Period the complementarity between vegetation belt for various biotic resources, depending on availability, location and seasonality. Here we complement such models at a meso-scale level, based upon results from surveys and excavations in upper Azapa valley bassin, a region located at the foothills of the Northern Chile Cordillera. Our...
Northern dispersal of early modern humans into East Asia: Progress and prospect (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dispersal of early modern humans (Homo sapiens) into eastern Eurasia has been hotly discussed, especially in terms of their routes. Southern and northern routes have been both proposed based on different lines of evidence. For many years, scholars have focused more on the research of southern route instead of northern route. With the new...
Northward Spread of Horses Among the Plains Indians (1938)
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Obsidian Conveyance into Northwest Colorado (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geographically, Northwestern Colorado sits in the confluence of several culture areas: Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, Great Plains, and Southwestern. Prehistoric peoples from these cultures have seasonally occupied Northwest Colorado since the Paleoindian Era and brought with them their technologies and materials. As obsidian does not naturally occur in...
Obsidian Sourcing and Interaction Networks in the Tanzanian Pastoral Neolithic (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding mobility, interaction, and exchange is fundamental to reconstructing social dynamics during the early spread of food production throughout eastern Africa. Geochemical sourcing of obsidian artifacts provides one mechanism for exploring relationships among mobile pastoralists and between these groups and foragers and how those relationships...
Obsidian Sourcing at the Tom Holcomb Site (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Natural resource procurement has long served as a proxy by which archaeologists have sought to understand how prehistoric peoples utilized their landscapes. This project presents obsidian source and procurement data as a component of land use and mobility pattern research in the American Southwest and Northwest Mexico during the Late Archaic period by...
Of Pigments and Tools: Lithic and Ochre Raw Material Procurement Strategies during MIS 5 at Mwulu’s Cave (Limpopo, South Africa) (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Local and/or Exotic Interactions: Symbols, Materials, and Societies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Middle Stone Age was a period of important innovations for Homo sapiens, including but not restricted to heat-treatment of silcrete, hafting adhesive, symbolic behaviors such as engravings, or exploitation of ochre. Though southern African Middle Stone Age lithics and ochre are commonly studied, combined studies of...
On the Road and in Place: A Material History of the New Buffalo Commune, New Mexico (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Northern Rio Grande History: Routes and Roots" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The New Buffalo Commune of northern New Mexico was a countercultural mecca during the late 1960s and 1970s, drawing in young folks from around the country who sought escape from the industrialism, capitalism, and militarism of mid-twentieth-century American society. It was a community of those who were looking to return to lost relationships...
One Step at a Time- Preliminary Evidence for Human and Mega Fauna Trackways Located Along the Ancient Shorelines of Lake Lucero, White Sands Missile Range. (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2006, human trackways were discovered at White Sands National Park along with the trackways of giant Sloth, Dire Wolf, Camel, and Columbian Mammoth. Upon the mapping and excavation of these prints in 2018, small preserved ancient grass seeds (Ruppia cirrhosa) were revealed that provided calibrated dates of 22,860 (∓320) and 21,130 (∓250) years ago...
Oral Microbiome Shifts Associated with the Expansion of the Roman Empire along the Lower Danube (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Under Emperor Trajan, the Roman Empire encompassed 5 million square kilometers across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The empire’s vast territory was interconnected by an extensive network of roads and military conquests, yet it was also characterized by a rich diversity of cultures, languages, and populations. Despite centuries of study, many questions remain...
Order in the Cave: Examining Resource Management in Basecamp Setting through the Tabun Cave Sequence, Israel (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Logistic mobility and basecamps crystallized in the Middle Pleistocene and became habitual, focusing mainly on caves. Among the basecamp’s characteristics are the abundant resources consumed and accumulated, brought by its partners, including lithics. Reusing accumulated chert enables reducing efforts on its further procurement while...
Origins and evolution of the Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in Northwest Africa (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A long standing debate in Africa concerns the precise chronological and cultural relationship of the MSA (Middle Stone Age) to the LSA (Later Stone Age). In broad terms, the Northwest African MSA is represented by Levallois flake and blade industries that sometimes contain small cores and a range of potential projectile forms such as...
Over the Hills and Far Away: Evaluating Competing Models for Early Ceramic Period Mobility in the Southern Rocky Mountains (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The transition from the Late Archaic (1200 B.C. to A.D. 150) to the Early Ceramic (A.D. 150 – A.D. 1150) in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming is characterized by decreasing mobility, a trend reflected by the adoption of ceramic technology, limited stone architecture, and longer site occupation. Contrasted against this shift to longer occupations is...
Oxygen Stable Isotopes as Geographic Residence Indicators in the Colonial Period Basin of Mexico: El Japón, Xochimilco, Mexico (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Sixteenth-century Spanish colonization of Mesoamerica caused demographic decline, epidemics, and large-scale political conflict leading to geographic relocation of communities by force, coercion, or as strategies of survival. Stable isotopic methods in recent decades examine narratives of population movement previously known from historical records....
Palaeolithic Landscapes of the Central Azraq Basin: Palaeoenvironmental Change and Settlement Dynamics in the Eastern Desert of Jordan (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Open-air archaeological records provide an important contribution to our understanding of the range of environments exploited by hominins and how changes in technology and mobility might relate to local and regional environmental fluctuations. The challenge, however, is that the distribution of buried and surface archaeological remains in...
Paleoindian Archaeology in the Munsungun Lake Region: Beyond Norway Bluff (2018)
In the late seventies and early eighties Robson Bonnichsen identified and tested several fluted point occupation loci adjacent to chert deposits on Norway Bluff, Piscataquis County, Maine. Since that time various research projects have demonstrated the importance of chert from this region to the lithic economy of fluted point groups in northeastern North America. Despite these new insights little archaeological research has taken place in the Munsungun Lake region since Bonnichsen’s original...
The Paleoindian Archaeology of Guano Valley, Oregon (2018)
During the 2016 field season, the Great Basin Paleoindian Research Unit (GBPRU [University of Nevada, Reno]) began investigating Guano Valley, Oregon for evidence of Paleoindian occupations. Our initial work revealed a rich record of Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene (TP/EH) archaeology that appeared strongly associated with an extensive delta system that brought fresh water into Guano Lake from the south. This past field season, the GBPRU returned to Guano Valley and recorded numerous...
Paleoindian Use of Eocene Chert from the Wyoming Basin (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Old Technology, New Methodology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The first people who occupied the western hemisphere are characterized as being highly mobile and for having a propensity for using high quality cherts. Many of these high-quality lithic sources have been described and documented, while Eocene cherts of the Wyoming Basin have yet to have the same attention nor are they recognized as being a favorable...
Paleoindian Use of the Lake Fork Valley, Southwest Colorado (2015)
For more than a decade, University of Oklahoma archaeologists have teamed with avocational archaeologist Mike Pearce to document Paleoindian use of the Lake Fork Valley (LFV), southwest Colorado. The Lake Fork of the Gunnison River flows from the town of Lake City approximately 50 km north to the Gunnison River in the Upper Gunnison Basin (UGB). Interestingly, however, the Paleoindian record of the LFV differs markedly from that of the better-known UGB. We hypothesize that treating the LFV as...
Paleoindians on the Postglacial Margin: Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Mobility in Northern Wisconsin (2015)
The area south Lake Superior was first colonized by Late Paleoindian groups during the Early Holocene after the final retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet from the region. As a result, Paleoindian sites in the area are ideal for testing ideas about the nature of hunter-gatherer adaptive responses to early postglacial environments. This project presents data from reanalysis of the lithic assemblages from a number of sites spread across northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The first...
Pastoralist Land Use and Mobility in the Horn of Africa: An Archaeological Predictive Model (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological Predictive Models (APMs) are a critical tool for archaeologists working across the globe; however, they are underutilized in continental Africa. As part of ongoing archaeological research in Djibouti, the Southeast Djibouti Regional Archaeological Project (SEDRAProject) developed an ArcGIS-based APM for pastoralist sites in the eastern Horn...
Paths and plants: territory and mobility among the Laklãnõ/Xokleng in Brazil (2016)
The Laklãnõ Xokleng Indigenous people occupy a tropical forest area of the Southern valley of Brazil, in Santa Catarina. Historically, they were documented as a hunter-gatherer population with high mobility system who occupied and managed an extended and diverse territory, including high plateaus, forested valleys and coastal areas. Archaeologically it is still difficult to affirm if this documented mobility pattern is an (in)direct result of European contact and reorganization of indigenous...
People Moving Pottery: Modeling the Circulation of Fourmile Polychrome in East-central Arizona (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Pedestrians: Current Research in GIS-Based Movement Modeling for Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southwest archaeologists have long relied on the exchange and movement of decorated pottery to infer cultural boundaries, migrations, and broader social networks. However, little investigation has been done on the processes or paths used to transport pottery within these social networks. The...
The People of the Land and the People of the Sea: Tracing Residence and Relationships between Littoral and Chaupiyunga Populations in the Moche Valley during the Early Intermediate Period (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Exploring mobility and inter-community relationships has been an important area of research in the Precolumbian Andes since Rostworowski first argued for economic and ethnic divisions between communities of fishers and farmers on the Peruvian north coast. To address this issue in the Moche Valley, we examined Viru period (150 BC–AD 500) dental remains of...